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2018 Ashland County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Ashland County, WI went without power for an average of 1.6 hours, a total of 10K customer-hours (Wisconsin average 1.7 hours). That ranks 36th worst of 71 Wisconsin counties and 2044th of 2,798 nationally.
Compared with WI, the US and 2017
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Wisconsin customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Ashland County, 2018
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | September 1, 2018 05:15 | September 1, 2018 16:15 | 11h | 570 | 1,077 |
| 2 | August 9, 2018 11:00 | August 9, 2018 13:15 | 2h 15m | 393 | 439 |
| 3 | May 1, 2018 16:45 | May 1, 2018 19:45 | 3h | 361 | 287 |
| 4 | August 17, 2018 13:30 | August 17, 2018 15:30 | 2h | 259 | 324 |
| 5 | July 9, 2018 10:45 | July 9, 2018 11:00 | 15m | 239 | 60 |
| 6 | June 27, 2018 20:15 | June 27, 2018 23:45 | 3h 30m | 205 | 333 |
| 7 | June 15, 2018 17:00 | June 16, 2018 06:30 | 13h 30m | 187 | 591 |
| 8 | March 5, 2018 21:00 | March 5, 2018 23:15 | 2h 15m | 170 | 383 |
| 9 | June 15, 2018 12:45 | June 15, 2018 16:00 | 3h 15m | 166 | 67 |
| 10 | October 10, 2018 11:45 | October 11, 2018 21:00 | 1d 9h | 144 | 3,712 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 12 reached 100+ customers, 0 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 reached 10,000+ customers.
Utility reliability filed with the EIA
SAIDI (average outage time per customer) and SAIFI (average interruptions per customer) that utilities serving Ashland County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2018, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.
| Utility | EIA year | SAIDI | SAIFI | SAIDI excl. major events | SAIFI excl. major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northern States Power Co | 2018 | 2.9 hrs | 0.94 | 1.8 hrs | 0.69 |
| Price Electric Coop Inc | 2013 | 4.5 hrs | 4.50 | 4.5 hrs | 4.50 |
| Bayfield Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| North Central Power Co Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 83% of Wisconsin's customers in 2018; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 6,345 customers (ORNL modeled county customer count), including major storm days. It is comparable across counties but is not the SAIDI a utility files.
- An outage event is a continuous stretch with customers out; counts at 100, 1,000 and 10,000+ use its peak.
- Years loaded: 2015–2025. Ashland County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Ashland County, WI annual power outage report, 2018, data as of Oct 3, 2026 02:41 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2018/wisconsin/ashland-county